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darias009 's review for:
A Lesson in Vengeance
by Victoria Lee
DID NOT FINISH
DNF.
I feel like this book is trying very very hard and failing.
I think it was probably due to the writing style? I am not entitrely sure. There are attempts made to build atmosphere, but they were lost on me. I didn't feel it. I felt the attempt of it but it didn't reach me. Maybe it was because I didn't read it in my mother tongue that I didn't find it very emersive but I found it lacking.
I mean there were scenes, like the visit at the antique shop, where I think it did work but overall it didn't capture me.
Also I couldn't build a connection with the characters, I found them all a bit pale and not really interesting.
I had hopes for this book, like dark academia, witches and then it's also queer? Sounded great but I didn't like the execution and it finally lost me once we actually got to recreating the witchy stuff shortly before the halfway point. I don't see myself finishing this. I just didn't work for me, sadly. Maybe next time, I'll listen to the average rating for a book and not think "Hey, maybe my experience will be different." And while I had this experience with other books, this one wasn't one of those for me. I am afraid I will have to continue to search for an dark academia book that will satisfy my demands for that kind of story.
I feel like this book is trying very very hard and failing.
I think it was probably due to the writing style? I am not entitrely sure. There are attempts made to build atmosphere, but they were lost on me. I didn't feel it. I felt the attempt of it but it didn't reach me. Maybe it was because I didn't read it in my mother tongue that I didn't find it very emersive but I found it lacking.
I mean there were scenes, like the visit at the antique shop, where I think it did work but overall it didn't capture me.
Also I couldn't build a connection with the characters, I found them all a bit pale and not really interesting.
I had hopes for this book, like dark academia, witches and then it's also queer? Sounded great but I didn't like the execution and it finally lost me once we actually got to recreating the witchy stuff shortly before the halfway point. I don't see myself finishing this. I just didn't work for me, sadly. Maybe next time, I'll listen to the average rating for a book and not think "Hey, maybe my experience will be different." And while I had this experience with other books, this one wasn't one of those for me. I am afraid I will have to continue to search for an dark academia book that will satisfy my demands for that kind of story.